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Why BJP Is Confident That OBCs Will Vote For The Party In Upcoming UP Polls

OBC voters are solidly behind the BJP, says UP BJP chief Swatantra Dev Singh in this interview with 바카라.

Uttar Pradesh BJP president Swatantra Dev Singh spoke to바카라 웹사이트바카라바카라 웹사이트about the party라이브 바카라 outreach to the OBC (Other Backward Community) and why he thinks the community will vote for the party in the upcoming Assembly election. Excerpts..

Q)바카라 웹사이트Assembly elections are only a few months away. There is a scramble for OBC votes, which accounts for 42 percent of the state라이브 바카라 population. According to surveys, the OBC community has favoured BJP in 2017 assembly polls. Do you think that the party will be able to retain the OBC vote bank this time?

The OBC community is firmly rallied behind the BJP. They have overwhelmingly voted for BJP in the 2017 Assembly elections and 2014 and 2019 Lok Sabha elections too. Even바카라 웹사이트today, they are with the BJP.바카라 웹사이트 The reason is that the entire community are the beneficiaries of various schemes implemented by the BJP governments at the state and the centre. The Dalits and the most backward got due benefits under the Yogi Adityanath government. The PM schemes have instilled hope and confidence among backward communities. PM Modi also belongs to the OBC community, that라이브 바카라 one of the reasons that the backward community is also solidly behind us. OBCs were in dire straits when Samajwadi Party (SP) government was in power. The SP government played caste and communal politics and the government schemes didn’t reach the most backward communities at all. However, the BJP governments ensured that the benefits reached the last man.

Q)바카라 웹사이트There is growing clamour for conducting caste census to count the population of OBCs in order to address levels of deprivation. The demand has come from BJP MPs also.바카라 웹사이트 NDA allies Apna Dal and JD (U) are vociferous about it.

The central government has to take a call on conducting the caste census. The decision will come at an appropriate time.

바카라 웹사이트Q)바카라 웹사이트BJP is having an OBC meet in Ayodhya on바카라 웹사이트September 18.바카라 웹사이트바카라 웹사이트Is it an attempt to consolidate the OBC votes?

BJP라이브 바카라 OBC Morcha has been holding zone-wise meetings –‘pichara Varga Sammelans’— in many places. It라이브 바카라 state working committee meeting will be held in Ayodhya on바카라 웹사이트September 18. It is an important meeting, where the party will decide the strategy for 2022 Assembly elections. We will decide the roadmap for the election. More conventions and campaigns will be planned in the run up to the election. On the birth anniversary of Deendayal Upadhyaya on바카라 웹사이트September 25, the party will convene meetings across the state.

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Q)바카라 웹사이트Your former ally Suheldev Bharatiya Samaj Party (SBSP) chief Om Prakash Rajbhar holds considerable influence among the Rajbhar community. He is planning to campaign against the BJP in the elections. Will it cast a shadow on BJP라이브 바카라 prospects? You have met him recently.

바카라 웹사이트Yes, I have met him recently and had discussions. Just because Om Prakash Rajbar broke alliance바카라 웹사이트with바카라 웹사이트BJP,바카라 웹사이트the바카라 웹사이트community is not going to vote against us. Entire backward community is with us. The BJP has ensured development and law and order in the state. The backward classes are the most oppressed group in the society. Now they feel safe under BJP rule. They are no longer being harassed by miscreants.

Q)바카라 웹사이트Will the바카라 웹사이트farmers’ ‘Mahapanchayat’ in Muzzafarnagar have any electoral fallout?

It won’t have any impact on BJP라이브 바카라 poll prospects. Earlier also, the farmers have conducted ‘mahapanchayat’ before the panchayat elections. But the results were in favour of the BJP. All the participants in the protests are not going to vote against BJP. The farmers have no clear-cut reason for their protests against the farm laws. The farmers in western UP have benefitted by Yogi government라이브 바카라 policies in a big way.

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